The Lost Twenty-Five Years

... South Caucusus republics, nor even Ukraine could have caused as big a country as the USSR to disappear so quickly. Only the will of the Russian establishment – the... ... diminish over time without active participation in the major Middle Eastern arena (Syria). Bref , the main problem in today’s Russia is a crisis of ideas –... ... followed other countries – initially in the hope of fitting into the realm of Western concepts. Over time, however, it became more and more withdrawn, nurturing grudges...